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The HKF Award

An HKF award is about much more than money. We know that the financial support provided to HKF award winners will be vital in enabling students who face financial difficulties to progress to higher education. We also know that worries about money are only part of the story – our experience over the last decade has shown that offering students personal and practical support and opportunities throughout their time in higher education and beyond can improve a student’s chance of success and ultimately enhance employability. The HKF award is a package of financial, personal and practical support and opportunities designed to support transition into higher education, enhance the student’s experience at university and improve chances of employment after graduation.

What you can expect from us:

Financial support, usually in the form of a £2,250 bursary provided in instalments during your time in higher education. Most students who make a successful application to the Foundation will receive a bursary but we also offer some scholarships, in partnership with individual universities, which may be offered instead of a bursary award.

A named contact at the Foundation, who can give advice, listen to problems, signpost to other organisations, celebrate your successes and be your point of contact for any questions and concerns.

Access to free training sessions geared towards improving the skills you need throughout university and employment. These range from confidence building to exam preparation or IT and we are always happy to take suggestions for new sessions.

Work Shadowing - we are aware of how difficult it can be to boost your CV when employers are always looking for something extra from potential employees. We can help organise work placements for students to help you gain experience and make contacts.

Being an HKF award winner is a responsibility. It is vital to the Foundation that we are able to keep in touch with our students, to find out how you are getting on and to gather regular feedback which helps us to monitor how the services we provide make a difference. Each award winner is asked, as a condition of their award, to meet the following requirements. If you can’t commit to fulfilling these conditions you shouldn’t apply for an award.

To keep the Foundation up to date with any changes in your contact details, email address or phone number.

To respond to requests for feedback from the Foundation within the time limit given.

To inform the Foundation if, for any reason, you change courses or universities, or have to leave your course either temporarily or permanently.

To update the Foundation, at least annually, on how you are getting on at university – this update can take whatever form you wish and doesn’t have to be long, we just need to know how you are doing.

To inform the Foundation, after graduation, of what class of degree you received and what you intend to do next.

To respond to requests for information from the Foundation as when you receive them.

To help us to publicise our work – this could be formally, for example, by giving permission for your story to be featured in our leaflets or on our website, or being interviewed for a piece in a newspaper, or informally by telling other people about the work of the Foundation and how it has helped you. We recognise that not everyone wants to share their story and you would always be given the option, but it helps us if you are prepared to take part in this way.

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Privacy Policy

We understand the power that the Internet holds for changing your life and making things easier for you. These benefits are at risk if people are concerned about their personal privacy.
We are committed to providing you with an Internet experience that respects and protects your personal privacy, choices and concerns. Our privacy policy and practices are detailed below. Please read them thoroughly.

Helpful definitions

Personally identifiable information is information, such as your name, birth date, e-mail address or mailing address, which can be used to uniquely identify you.

Anonymous information is not personally identifiable information. Anonymous information is information about how you use our site. Anonymous information also includes the domain names and/or I.P. addresses (as explained below) of Internet browsers that visit our site, the time of day that the site was visited, and other non-personal information.

Anonymous information is information that is not tied to any person, but helps us know what our users do (for example, we know that the average stay lasts over five minutes).

Collecting and using personally identifiable information

You can visit our site and use many of our services without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself to us. It is only when you enter details to contact us that will you be asked to provide us with personally identifiable information.

When you fill in these forms, you need to complete certain fields (some are required and some are optional). We use this information to share your information with select third parties who work with us, only if you give us permission (as we explain below).

Sharing Personally Identifiable Information with Other Companies

We will not share your personally identifiable information unless you have authorized us to share it. When we share your personal information with other companies, they can use this information but cannot combine this information with other information they have about you or share this information with other companies or people without your express permission.

Disclosure of your Identity

From time to time we receive requests to disclose the identities of our users.

We do not disclose the identities of our users unless we are legally required to do so. If a governmental agency, or a law enforcement agency, requests information in relation to the identities of our user, we will comply with the request.

If we receive a request by a third party that is not a governmental agency (for example, a request in connection with civil litigation), we will contact the user whose identity has been requested using the contact information the user provided during the registration process.

We will wait 10 days after notifying the user before deciding whether to comply with the request by disclosing the identity of the user, unless the request requires us to disclose this information before then. If we cannot wait 10 days because of the deadline in the request, we will let the user know the deadline included in the request when we provide notice that we received it.

Anonymous Information

We collect anonymous information when people use our site, even if they have not entered their personal details.

We will not share any anonymous information about your use of our site with third parties if we know that this information will be linked with your personally identifiable information obtained from another source, unless you have given us permission to do this.

Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computers hard drive. Cookies do not damage your computer. Cookies make web surfing easier for you by saving your preferences while you are on our site.

You can decide if you want to accept cookies by changing the settings on your computer. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies, or allow your browser to show you when a cookie is being sent.

Use of I.P. Addresses

An Internet protocol (I.P.) address is a set of numbers that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you log on to your Internet service provider or through your company's local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN). Web servers, the powerful computers that provide web pages for viewing, automatically identify your computer by the I.P. address assigned to it during your session online. We may collect I.P. addresses for some purposes.
Security

We operate secure data networks protected by industry-standard firewall and password protection. We have security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your user data under our control.

Only certain employees have access to the information you provide us. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur, we try to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.